10 Huge Misconceptions About Doctor Who

It’s possibly the most irritating thing for Whovians, when people who don’t watch it miss the golden rule. If you’re one of those people who’ve never seen the show, let me just tell you now: his name is the Doctor. Not Doctor Who.

But there are some misconceptions that are an awful lot less obvious, even to those of us that watch the show. Doctor Who has its cliches, its myth and its reliances, but how many of those do we question? How often do we stop and wonder about so many of the “facts” that we take at face value?

Well, here are ten misconceptions about Doctor Who that even a fan could miss: prepare to change the way you think about the show.

This website has a huge problem with over hyping their articles. No I did not find any of these HUGE and none of them changed my perception of the show and they were all ideas I know about.
Just because you are a writer and think you have some ideas that are groundbreaking or insightful doesn’t mean that 3/4 of the internet hasn’t read the somethings you come up with. In fact I am pretty sure you can go through old Dr Who list on here and find every single point that you made.

Huge misconceptions? Really? The only huge misconception in this article is that it is an article about huge misconceptions. Possibly the most dull and boring article about Doctor Who I have ever read (or half read, I didn’t make it to the end.)

Actually you’re wrong. The Doctor did fulfill his timeline by not destroying Gallifrey. As he then says in the museum, he’ll forget this adventure, and instead think that he had destroyed Gallifrey, alluding to the fact that 9 and 10 are convinced they destroyed Gallifrey. Don’t go rubbishing people’s observations when you can’t understand episodes yourself.

Moffat is criticised for NOT killing characters, and for constantly bringing characters back to life. That’s the criticism.

Actually the #2 “misconception” is based in reality: the sonic screwdriver was used so much by the 4th and 5th Doctors that the production team destroyed it in “The Visitation”… and it didn’t show up again until the modern series.

If Moffat doesn’t “lie”, he likes to give clues, not answer the very obvious questions posed by those clues, then distract us with something vaguely similar but obviously not included with original clues.

It’s true that Moffat doesn’t lie; he very carefully hints at the truth with misdirection. I remember reading an interview with him prior to the Day of the Doctor. In it he said he didn’t like the idea of old Doctors getting back into costumes they wore 30-odd years ago, and if it were up to him he’d find different ways to utilise them. Retroactively, that’s a glaring admission of the Tom Baker cameo!

Eh, I thought a much bigger misconception is that the Doctor has always been a pacifist and Matt Smith’s Doctor is too violent, when in reality, the First Doctor tried to bash someone’s head in with a rock in his very first story.